Lincroft, NJ *****
JAMES SHI (C) 917-***-****
Email:*****.****@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
Westfield Investment, LLC Westfield, NJ August’16 – Present
Investment Analyst—Leveraged Finance Credits Analysis
Develop opportunities from: de-leverage, post restructure recovery, and industrial recovery or development.
Perform credit analysis, including cash flow, structure, on/off balance sheet, collaterals, and credit risk.
Analyze documents, including term sheets, credit agreements and indentures.
Analyze encompassed due diligences with companies’ management teams.
Participate in creditors’ committees and court restructure processes.
Analyze underlying assets value by applying discounted cash flow, comparable and precedent transactions.
Analyze industries: Consumer, Energy, Mining, Shipping, Telecom, Technologies, and Utilities.
Invested in Commodity Based investments: Long senior secured notes of Dry Bulkers and Oil Tankers, Offshore Rig, Shale Oil and Gas, and Mining companies.
Invested in Event Driven investments: Long Distressed Consumer, Retail, TMT and Integrated Utility bonds.
Participate in brokerage and trading processes, including KYC process.
Participate in compliance processing, including compliance manual, KYC and business continuity plan.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York, NY September’14-August’ 16
Vice President, Global Product Valuation-- Total asset size of $20 billion, including loan, bonds, equities, claims, structured credit products, and credit derivatives.
Performed distressed asset valuation by applying fundamental analysis, event analysis, comparable market data, precedent transactions, and discounted cash flow model. The sectors were: energy, healthcare, leisure, transportations, and TMT.
Advised on valuation and price testing methodologies, including validation, challenge and remark.
Analyzed credit documentations, including term sheets and credit agreements.
Performed collateral assets valuation for total return swaps, including systematic risk and recovery rate.
Provided credit opinions on new investment products, including collateral value and systematic risk.
Developed business partner relationship with other business groups, including credit risk monitor.
Participated in supervisory processes, including spreadsheet compliant process, supervise methodology review, vendors product and service review, and auditor’s question and answer meeting.
Markit Partners, Inc. New York, NY October’10 – Septermber’14
Vice President, Global Bond Price Evaluation --Evaluate 20,000 corporate bond prices for over 100 institutional asset management and investment firms
Utilized credit analysis, historical price analysis and comparable yield curve analysis, for illiquid corp credits.
Determined fair value for distressed debts, and responsible for major bond portfolio coverages.
Lionhart LLC, New York, NY September ’04 – September’10
Senior Investment Analyst --- 10.5% Geometric return from North American Credit Portfolio;$100MM average credit book.
Advised on natural resource private equity investments, including asset analysis and valuation.
Advised on distressed corporate debts investments, including recapitalization modeling and event analysis.
Invested in Structured Credit Products, including index tranche, i.e., Short HY7 Index equity tranche.
Prepared Rare Earth industrial research reports and rare earth mining companies’ equity research.
Invested in US based distressed finance companies hedged by CDS,
LBO event driven long equity and short credit risk, i.e., Qantas Airlines
BB&T Capital Markets, Red Bank, NJ June ‘03 – August ‘04
Senior High Yield and Distressed Debt Analyst
Performed distressed bonds investment researches i.e., Greyhound/Laidlaw, and Kmart lease debts.
Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Red Bank, NJ December ‘99 – May ‘03
Taxable Fixed Income Research Analyst
Provided high yield and investment grade credit reviews for trading and sales. i.e., BE Aerospace.
EDUCATION Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York, NY
MBA degree in Financial Management
York College, City University of New York, New York, NY
B.S. in Business Administration